Manx History, Heritage & Culture Podcasts

​Manx History, Heritage & Culture:

MANX RADIO OLD NEWS:

• OLD NEWS 10 MAY 2026 Visitors

  As we get into the tourist season proper and more cruise ships arrive, H looks back at what the Island was like for tourists 100 + years ago. Better or worse?!

 MANX RADIO'S ISLAND LIFE SERIES:

• AI, Work and the 15-Hour Week.

  We were promised a 15-hour work week... So why does it feel like we’re working more than everChristian Jones speaks with Lyle Wraxall (Digital Isle of Man Chief Executive) Dr Fabian Stephany (Departmental Researcher in AI and Work, University of Oxford), Professor Raj Choudhury (Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London School of Economics), Brian Gallagher (Chief Executive, LEMA Logic), Dan Thomas (Founder, Archit3ct), Dr Alex Allinson MHK (speaking from medical perspective) and John Webster (Chair, Manx Technology Group).Music written and produced by Christian Jones.

THE ARCHIVE ROOM:

• A couple of tourism trailblazers plus memories of the Derby Castle - and a Guild recordbreaker!

  In this episode of The Archive Room, we tell the story of Cunningham's Camp, and of the Falcon Cliff Hotel - plus there are memories of the Derby Castle, and we celebrate 100-year-old Laurence Kermode becoming the oldest person ever to compete and win a class in the Manx Music Festival

AT YOUR SERVICE:

• A 21st birthday, one man wearing two hats, and an answer to prayer - it's all here!

  Praying the Keeills Week is 21 years old - and the new programme of walks starts next Saturday 16 May - all the details are here with comments from organisers Phil Craine and Catherine Wareing. Tobit Curteis talks about his work, mixing the art and the science of caring for historic buildings - and author and broadcaster Richard Littledale has an unusual answer to prayer - plus music, and our usual notice board.

PAUSE FOR A POEM:

• 1. PAUSE FOR A POEM - Joan Bennett

  Join H as he turns back the years and flips through the pages of "Pause for a Poem" - a Manx Radio feature back in 1970s. Did you feature?!

MANX RADIO AT 60:

• Manx Radio at 60: The Last Look

  John Moss takes a final trip into the archives to relive some of the finest interviews and features we've brought you throughout our 60th anniversary year.

KELLY'S EYE: 

• KELLY'S EYE - CLARENCE TERRACE

  David and Peter look at well-known terrace from the 1840s and some new buildings there . .

ISLE OF MAN HERITAGE RAILWAYS: 

• MANX ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 130th ANNIVERSARY

  A continuation of Mike Buttell's journey through history on our Heritage Transport in a year of Anniversary Celebrations.  This week: Mike completes the journey to Ramsey, remembers a landslip that might have seen the end of the Railway and reveals a top secret service at the top of Snaefell, in this final part of our series about the Island's pioneering and much loved form of transport.

TERRY CRINGLE'S HISTORY MAN:

• The History Man - 18th December 2022

  In this archive edition, Terry looks at the history of Noble's Hospital.

THE CHARLES GUARD SERIES

• Giles Job relives childhood memories of Derby Castle

  Giles Job lived in the Derby Castle Hotel as a child in the late 1940s. At the time the building was divided into two apartments and he and his family lived in one of them.
  On a recent visit to the Isle of Man he took the opportunity to talk to Charles Guard about his memories of the living there, including anecdotes about the Derby Castle theatre, the dance hall and the underground maze of cellars and passages that he explored as a young boy.
   

 

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